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Textual Analysis
Quick questions on The Textual Analysis task: SQA Advanced Higher English Question Paper 2
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What is read twice before you write?Show answer
The first reading decides what the text is and does: its subject, its situation, its dominant tone or effect. The second reading decides how: the features that produce that effect. Resist analysing line by line from the first word; an analysis that knows where the text is going can select the features that matter and discard the trivial.
What is q1?Show answer
What should each of your two readings of the unseen text decide? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is an overall reading and why does it matter? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What two response formats does SQA accept for Textual Analysis? [1 mark]
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